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Christmas cactus in February.

I’ve been a gardening slacker, but this is “I suck at gardening.” I have a few more things coming up soon, but for the moment here’s a Christmas cactus cared for by my wife. Fortunately it seems immune to my presence. [click to embiggen]

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Grocery Gardening

My sister sent me a copy of her new book.  I plan on getting my head wrapped around it soon and will follow up with a glowing review I’m sure. The copy she sent me appears to be printed upside down but I will figure it out soon. Read more and get a copy here! For comparison purposes [...]

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It did live once.

A quick post – I’ll put a couple more up today.  I wanted to show from the last entry that the little Hibiscus was once alive.

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Not just yet.

I’m looking out of my window at snow. We rarely get any snow around here, but today we have at least 8 inches or so now while it still falls. I was going to write about this little Hibiscus mortius but I don’t know what to say about it. It was pretty? [...]

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I am ashamed of my shed.

I’ve been remiss in my responsibilities as a shed owner. Pathetic. I built this shed a several years back. It was neat for a while. It certainly isn’t neat now. It’s my goal to get the mess straight soon. I want to plant an actual real garden after having given up on it for a [...]

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Tiptoe Through the Tulips

I noticed we have bulbs poking their noses up this morning.  We still haven’t had a decent snow; I’m torn between looking forward to Spring and being disappointed about not having any snow.  It’s still January and it’s pushing over 60 degrees this morning already. I want to do more plantings and gardening this year [...]

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A rug for my yard.

We have a dog.  She’s not a large dog, about 70lbs of Yellow Lab mix.  She can produce serious amounts of poop.  In fact I think she poops much more than she eats.  I’m not sure how this is possible.  I’m no scientist, but it would be great if I could convince someone that it [...]

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Poor cold plants.

Our mailbox is frequented by by some local neighborhood dog.  Fortunately some of the plants around the mailbox aren’t within pissing range or the frost here might be yellow.  I think these are Pansies.

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You’ll need to use your imagination.

I think what was once here was a Coleus.  Dark leaves, reddish flower things.  Of course I’m not sure of the name. It was a happy little plant. Unfortunately it died in the Winter before I got its name.  It probably wouldn’t have talked anyway.

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Our ex-garden and a plant that could live in hell.

This is Lantana in the middle of Summer.  It started from a small stump of Lantana cut back from the previous year.  This was in June before the plant was so large it threatened to take over the driveway and move down toward the street on an adventure of unknown proportions.
This also used to be [...]

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